Over at the Corner, Mike Potemra has decided to have a debate on the relative merits of Star Trek‘s moral philosophy. (Via.) Coincidentally, I have over the past couple of months been watching DVDs of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a show...

This health care debate, when it’s really grinding me down (and right now, with Republicans drawing out in a blatant play to weaken Robert Byrd’s health so that he can’t make the vote, I’m really pissed) has so far...

Nearly 100 members of the House of Representatives have signed a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates requesting detailed data on people discharged under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. It is an...

In what amounts to an admission that the Copenhagen climate summit ended in failure, President Barack Obama says people are “justified” in being disappointed with the lack of a comprehensive deal for emissions reductions. But the...

Arguing that “covert action and analysis do not belong together in the same agency,” a former CIA agent who prepared intelligence briefings for President Reagan in the 1980s says the CIA should be broken in two. Ray McGovern, who...

A US House representative from Alabama took voter registration information from Democratic Party offices before defecting to the GOP, the Alabama branch of the Democratic Party says. Rep. Parker Griffith announced his switch to the Republican...

Fmr. Alaska governor bans bloggers who wrote unfavorably about her from book-signing Days after she was named in PolitiFact’s 2009 “Lie of the Year,” for propagating the “death panels” rumour about health care...

‘I have no idea why they have a gun like this,’ watchdog investigator says Researchers at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in New Mexico accidentally blew up a building with a “Civil-war-like” cannon earlier this month,...

Stephen Colbert explained why it’s so difficult to mock Fox News’ newest celebrity at the Second City 50th anniversary event in Chicago last weekend. Colbert told a panel that Glenn Beck “raised the stupid bar and now...

DUBAI — Six of Osama bin Laden’s children and one of his wives, missing since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, are under house arrest in Iran, newspapers reported on Wednesday, quoting a family member. “Until a month ago we did not...

So the other night, I was reading a book of essay by Ellen Willis called No More Nice Girls, and I bookmarked a page because the sentence on it really jumped out at me as the most succinct description of why the social conservatives merge so...

As health care reform legislation grinds its way through Congress, the list of those opposing it has ballooned, and a week ago former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was among them. Now, however, Dean says he has defected from...

The Federal Aviation Administration has been accused by a whistleblower of spending $5 million on a Christmas party this month for 3600 managers and passing it off as a training conference to discuss a new contract with air controllers....

WASHINGTON — There may be more to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) recent outrage at Democrats than meets the eye. Facing a potentially contentious GOP primary next year, McCain and his tea partying opponent are already resorting to heated...

A whistleblower told ABC’s Brian Ross that the FAA held a $5 million “training conference” in Atlanta that was doubled as a Christmas party. This video is from ABC’s World News, broadcast Dec. 22, 2009. Download video via...